Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average.
Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average.
New data shows Australia's gender pay gap has narrowed, but working women are still more than $28,000 a year worse off than the average man.
In short:
More than half of Australian companies have improved their gender pay gap, compared to last year. But for every $1 a man earns, women, on average, still only earn 78 cents.
The gender pay gap is not about "equal pay for equal work", but aims to quantify the difference between the average earnings of women and men in the workforce.
What's next?
Anyone can view the gender pay gaps at companies that employ more than 5 million Australian workers, and their plans to reduce the gap.
The gender pay gap is not about “equal pay for equal work”
Indeed, it seems to be primarily about making rage bait headlines.
Women work less hours on average, with considerably more working part time and those who work full time working less hours than men overall (so less overtime pay). What are you going to do to fix that gap, force women to work more? Between that and less women choosing to work in various higher paid and more physical/dangerous jobs (e.g. trades, mining) it's no wonder there's a difference.
It's about working out what cultural forces are causing women to work less and helping to equalise those. It's also about how jobs traditionally seen as female-dominated being paid less than male-dominated work. You say
less women choosing to work in various higher paid
I say
Why is the extremely important work of early childcare and teaching not valued as highly as banking or mine working?
I don't think banking should be paid as highly as it does, but mine workers earn so much because they literally risk their lives at work.
The reason why bankers earn so much probably is because they work with huge amounts of money, so it's easier for them to demand a cut of it.
I mean, where I work we've hired every female applicant we've ever had and we're still at around 98% male. I'm not sure what we could even do about it.
Same in my industry. Rarely do any women apply.
I think calling it a pay gap is fairly disingenuous, really its about apparent descrimination. We should work ti eliminate descrimination while still hiring the best person for the job, otherwise you end up going the other way and you're back at square one.
So the man is only left with 22 cents??? 😯
I'll see myself out...